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Show - N N c J- 1 Smith ht irl 1 gait fake Stilmne r lion Wednesday Morning:, May 7. 1S75 Page . I fi y Cutting Social Security Increase First Step in Saving System If may impose some hardship on the 35 nullum recipients of So lal Security if the automatic rest of living inrrea e in benefits is reduced But in the long haul fiimmmg the increase could lie an act of 1 salvation Under provisions adoted in 1972. benefits are tied to the cost of living index And under that formula Social i unty payments would he v ntten for 8 parent more after June and reflected n July checks. But the Ford aumimstra-tiociting a slowdown m the inflation i e and the neoe-sif- y of cutting federal r' 'T.diturcr., har, asked Congrt ss to set the increase at 5 percent Congress must a' t hy May 15 or the higher figure will go into cfioct. 1 v percent rate was promised back in February when the President presented 5 budget for fiscal 1078, but the need for fatting back is even more apparent h"- today P Social Security Commissioner James Cardwell Monday confirmed what a Concresvionally appointed advisory group had predicted that the Social Security system is, or soon will be, paying out more than it takes in lTnles Congress devises a means of more money into the system billion ti ust fund ' cushion' expended by lOsO Mr Cardwell insisted, as pumping the 850 will be did the K d' Hist 'w The teacher deserves thp full support Jordan Ronrd of education. Also every other school hoard across the state should support their teachers in similar fashion. Assaults on school teachers have increased horribly in reepnt years across the nation Whether iner eased unninal prosf cution will reverse the trend is probably debatable Teachers, no differently than any Former South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. who once commanded ard flew with ins countrys air force, is pictuied in news dispatches as nearly oroke and hoping to fund a job somewhere as an aircraft driver, a taxi driver or , was much the same with the leg shuts cut low by Watergate Men who once held great power and presumably possessed high qualifications, ale unable-tapply those abilities now that they have fallen from grace A survey of what 'imer Watergate figures are doing now nisi lusfd that most arc in mundane jobs r nut working at all -- f and are laid off will often experience extreme difficulty finding new jobs despite the fact that their previous portions should have established them as superior applicants Demonstrated ability, it might he concluded, is less important than mere chance and special talents in an age of specialization boomerang can bp a boon or a Why do we always visualize folks from outer spare as being weirder than we are Need we assume that their make-uexperts are better than ours p Tilly denies she told her last hoy friend to get lost She says she just suggested he go play in the Rermuda Triangle Smoking f oc bran '('r Guardian One ignificant g ug" v,i the fear a united I nr o' , not Aletnam will inspire in its, Asian n J.no s is ps military power Rut in public is frowned upon the closet ran either start a fire or ( lothes smell funnv arms aid directly to Hanoi, to prevent it from getting broken n transit, had a large clement ot ti uth The North mast have inherited between I'1 and 70 percent of South Vietnam's American-supplieweaponry, more or less in working order that power will he tornnriab'e In round figures this will give North Vietnam united A letr.am of 4.1 million people v Lil be the 200 and 1,500 tanks. 400 to 530 combat between rm t populous nation south of China and east of and 2,500 to 3,000 heavy guns raft, ain InRjngladesh with the single exception of Nobody except man 'Id But whom will it scare Cambodian and Laotian satellites Hanoi's Au tnam is far moie nomogoneous ethnically To begin with, the captured American than most ot its neighbors and Ihe A ir'namee aie a talented, energetic and vehemently equipment will be a rapidly vesting asset. How nal.onalistic people rapidly depends on what the actual spare part situation is in the South, and one suspects Shapes as Power when Hanois men have finished taking a that North A'letnam. and until April, South leisurely inventory thousands of tons of equipAietnam, were each maintaining armed torces ment mislaid by computer error nr human 'one times the ie of Thailand s 'with equipwill come to light in abandoned ment in proportion, and five times or more the incompetence w arehouses. 'ifectve sie of those of Malaysia. Burma Iasser Problem i d vsii rnd the Philippines of he Ammunition, which is down to a couple llm lories of a united Vietnam will not a lesser problem, weeks .stoc k for some types, is "i p', the 'em of those of thi two sides hut after a, it is an easy item to manufacture if theie is a ( nma and J,odn will be thi thud military power Even on optimistic a ssump ; ri Asia Huge amounts of American equipment worthwhile demand most of the A ,,e i fallen into North ictnamese hands m tin' turns about spare, parts, however, will have a life -at American were 'Ml equipment amcraft captured c.iptured ,n months im time of only about 18 months to two years Than Rang alone With or without American weapons, Recent wrv suggestions m Washington that it moreover Hanoi's army and air forte will not m! ! he simpler to send any further Ami nmm V first glance A 1 m- m, FM - House Divided It pecan with a President in otfjce who seemed to personify the confidence, energy and optimism ot a young nation It ended with that President assassinated his successor virtually dmen trom ottice, a third disgraced and the incumbent powetless in a house divided against lOuCaCzwr ( )nu,in! Lat In l!ir Middle itself The Public Forum ( airnw the flipper, and the slingshot that for a ntmu'e .nature' Tribune Win n theie sin h epubv and utter disregard fir animal wrlldV in I (al)' The conditions of most of the nty and county pounds and tne abandoned horses that owners have It die slow and tortuous deaths are a easing our conscience We may feel we are so close to oar Maker on but how lose will we be in the end Sundays when the final tally is taken and w e have abused Mis ireatures who also live breath and feel but do not have voices TERRY GROSS Granger Hit of Thought Editor Tribune Considering the idiotic pressure being put upon ail o( Us to promote gun control legislation nationwide, it seems that anv thinking person would pause to ponder some oi the various questions that ran ne brought to tin forefront With complete gun control nmt who would have the immediate upper hand in ease of anv invasion or an attempted overthrow of our form ot government" Now don t for a minute try to out out the idea that any subversive group would not have weapons Remember the thefts of defense equipment from the nation's armories Con'rol could in no way stop that F.icts can he brought forward that in Switzerland there is no greater incidence of violent crime than in other nations yet each home in that democracy his firearms ready at all times If it weie permitted to outlaw firearms m m.r country it could soon come to hunting knives, then butcher knives then down 'he line until all of the rm ks along the roads would be controilet Even mu ste ik knives would at e d nicer I Think of the outlaw mg ot the c rossbow a fat t that has he ome a virtual avt then the how and DEL LI "CAS Fare fr ur ( )wn ( Editor. Tribune I am alarmed at what is happening to America At a time when we should he rutting off all immigration, liecau.se we have reached the saturation point m population, our leaders are planning on imxrting moie heroes of Asiatics We have millions and millions of people on unemployment and welfare These new people are the type to swell that more Every war that goes on we have been a c opting hordes ot refugees We h3ve millions of illegal aliens, who should be deported The dmgooders should start at home, we are on the verge ot a economic collapse that will r nruni I II It's Pubhr hirum Wt'ers must be submitted Fvrlusivelv in The Tribune and bear writers lull njrne, signature and address Names must be primed n poluieal tellers bin may be withheld (or rood reasons on others Wruers are limned In one letter every til davs Preterence will he given to short, typewritten (double spaced) tetters per nutting use ot the writer's true name All letters are subject to condensation make thi dopiessien look like a Surday s' hoo picnic, and we are still importing more trouble ia-- t We nave millions of children in tnis country who need adopting, that are truly our children Wo should not adopt foreign childien, of many whom not orphans at all. but actually hemp kidnaped ult the streets hy agencies that are making JTMl apiece tor even foreign child thev can .endhcie e nu'tei " how many millions of people we rfiupl the!- will he mane many millions more m ti, e same phght We cannot carry the whole woi Id The do gooders should start realizing how thiv aie destroying America Let s start 'hanking Amoni a first Our Baders have to tie so k It s almost as if 'he destruction of America were planned ( Ken F Editor, Tt'bune John ttzgerald 'Forum 24 agrees with the granddaughter of Green Flake oim of the colored serv ants" mentioned on the Biighnm A oung monument plaque, that no change be mde M suggestion, if any hange is madt . is tha! the nmi s of the three be added in parentnesis following the existing phrase 7o bring them up Dorn anonymity would represent some degree of the tr humanization sime the days of slavery They were truly brothers to the ox " to quote Edwin Markham's phrase from The Man With the Hoe " Whtc h raises another idea II he colored sor(tt)ts" are now to be redeemed from anonymity why not add the number of oxen that hi ought the entire party over iin nids in sand, heat and storm Many humans believe those faithful animals hear their rtOiesiurs sjiiiiK ( qi not nappep to beiievp m i ini o nation hut for that matter neither do I hi a ' " tha' the spirits of the olored serv ants" w ie oi ur-- i d in the pi e existence It began with mutual misconceptions about both ourselv es and the Vietnamese It ended with burning draft Buddhist immolated cards, monks Rent State and. at the last, a muddy American fag on ihe floor of the emhassy in Saigon Along the way we lost 5h.0mof cur sons .And with that symmetry history abounds in we managed when all was lost, to save the lives rf a!n) 4 rxactly that many South Vietnamese ar Alter yeais warfare, the land if salted with tears and lmed with graves Frenchmen, Senegalese, German Foreign Legionnaires, Australians Koreans, Americans and. almost beyond counting, Vietnamese And at the end. while generals fled with suitcases stuffed with gold, a lone South Vietnamese police colonel saluted a war monument m Saigon and put a bulled through his brain How can we make it up to them, to ourselves, to the dead and the maimed and the orphaned" W'hat act of contrition can we perform that will erase the pain, salve the shame, exorcise the demon of defeatism and self hate" The answer is nothing. The dead cannot he trough! back to life, the maimed cannot be made whole again, the parents of the orphans are lost forever Some wars are worth winning, none is worth losing In the end. that ccxmskm on the w all turned out to be our own hide Those piles of dust they found near the looted shredder in the basement of the .American embassy in Saigon wpre not the remains of secret documents They were the ashes of our lost innocenc e, the Iat granules of our shattered 30 Years of W of 30 . illusions May we and those we abandoned find a sort of And thank God it's all ov er At la1 1. peace right' (Copy Bill Vaughn's Orbiting Paragraphs Word from Ihe Washington social scene is a popular couple has been dropped because thev aren t even mentioned in the FBI or CIA tiles that Congressman Sludgepump said what hapw i.s that he hired a joke w riter and a tax expert at the same time and they got 'heir assignments mixed pened Robin Fischer may make some money out of anotner big match with some Russian But why not go for the bundle and take on Billie Jean King n! in America could a man scratch exit a bare living trom a hard scrabble farm and tuiallv wmk up to where he gets a free ticket to the hall park whenever his son is pitching. April Useful Navy e Ilaimi gradual reunification ot r cuunrv jdi d for three dec ades hy a sa ige n il w itis that v. ill take years and tin Noi'h tnamesp palin it The c unlikelv that the ATtnamrsP will he to willing spurp the aKntion and resources for a niE)or guerrilla campaign outside thir iwn Ti-ver- v immediate art i It began with an excess of pride, with American tanks clanking down Vietnamese roads and the skies dark with thousands of U S. helicopters and jets It ended with the humiliation of little guerillas in black pajamas and rubber sandals padding past demoralized soldiers whose generals had fled, into a capital without a government W Vietnam wdl not have the inpaci'v in tne toreseeable future to engage in c or, vein, on military adventures abroad The onlv long tern advantage Hanot mav detive from capturing Saigon's equipment is the sudden aldition of a useful coastal nav y to its own small fo- -i e II not conventional war how about Antnani-esbacked guerrilla war" The onlv accessible potential target is Thailand and even lhat would require the use ol Laos and Cambodia as bases This certainly could be done 'though Ihe Thai Communist guerrillas in the Northeast .tie making little if any progress! ami Thailand has recently asked the V S to remove all its roups within a year to remove a possmle prov ot n'mn to Vo anxious Name Laos a reallv 1 GENE. STRINGER have the mnmUtv and range to pose a setious thieat even to Tnaibuvf without a lenelliv preceding period in which ex'ensive hasp and logistical facilities are neated in t'anibndia and die Tender to put the end to nmeon- s davs ihe only thing that would slop me would bo to he meat related, or killed by the that is regard'ess of fi real ms adversary knives, etc . mentioned pieviously I could use a A sharpened vtnk 'ilk stinking 'outlaw that 'pute effective in Vietnam' Even a Initial d hull in a sin k could do it A pier e of w ire. a nail in a Inuo'd a building hnrk a piece of broken glass .lust r ntisidr r the v annus possibilities. No if my mind was made up there would be no way Just give it a tut ot thought, and perhaps you too w ill see how ridiculous some of our proposed legislation t ould in fact, be Was shameful ie flection on all of the people Animals do feel hunger thirst and pain vnu know Do we only respond when we hear a voire, a num, jii tone, saving, flease help mi"? Dont we have enough compassion or the time just to see when an animal needs a helping hand, or dont we rare because it can t tell the neighbors how truly good and kind we are Do we just leave things like that to the little old ladies in tennis shoes and to those 'nuts." those the Humane Society, who. incidentally receives no state or federal funds to help them take cure of our responsibilities" We owe them a lot for a Ni kctl LmIjx c 1 c c Aft r ad I t uaiikhter xnoiild aione iyu',7 ni n k the wishes !i iiswiterl of the '! i it r$ i Jfa V I U1 i Is. ' Si 1 I :Ai r - iy g''and 'leave them LOWRY NELBON provo t m- disillusionment, the bitter beer of defeat and a questioning of truths no longer held self evident It began with ruffles and flourishes, and the proud thunder of a distant drum. It ended, hours after the last Americans had fled, with Muzak tapes at s , f N th-if- Hanois New Arms Power lo Scare Some - But Not All -- J JtS, with 3.500 American and yellow guidons snapping breeze, wading ashore at Da decade later, at another, soft the younger hrotheis of 'hese gienades down same Marines tossing tear-gaof the American embassy the elevator before being snatched away by helicopter It began wit.i a senes ot proud American Frederick Nolting, Henry Cabot viceroys demigods whose Lodge Ellsworth Bunker writ ran from the Mekong Delta to Quang Tn It ended with a rumpled American ambassador, his own sou a t asiialty of that war, disconsolate on the dei k ot a rescue ship, his embassy a looted shambles ia ard ' in It began Marines, their red in a warm spring Nang It ended, a spring dawn, with industry similar vein, persons who hold sniokaig in pnnsble positions in business and make nur Bv Edw 'V radio station blaring rock music to an empty house Hi other citizen, however, are deserving of the full protection of the law. If they are assaulted m the classroom they are entitled, even compelled, to follow established indicia! procedures, just as any other citizen is Likewise, students ait siibjtct to the same privileges, duties and responsib-litie- s under the law as anyone else. If they choose to assault a teacher, and are of sufficient age, then they should expect to face criminal charges and have their dispute with the teacher settled before a judge and, lJ necessary, a jury , instead of in the principals or counsellor's office. And, should conditions wauaut, let the courts deal with such offenders as severely as the law permits and as is appropriate under the circumstances !n a The Mar.ch . Saigons American Reducing the cost of living increase to 5 percent is not enough in itself to stabhzc Social Security for ail time but it would represent a long overdue realization that the system's costs must be brought into line with income. Congress, lavish with new Social Security benefits in recent years, is nearing the moment of truth Trimming the cost of living increase offers a timely indication of Congrcssion al determination to save the system c Nlu.itmn in v ,.;v w immediate danger, it seems reckless to increase benefits 8 percent wuthin weeks of the announement that the program is going into the red for the first time. farmer. It It brg.n, as most wars do WASHINGTON with a grand illusion, with champagne rhetoric and a commitment to high ideals It ended with :5 advisory group, that there ts ample time to solve the financial problems And he did not comment on the advisability of going through with the 8 percent cost of living raise although he said he would lecommend to the President that shortterm measures designed to slow the outflow of funds be delayed until the country gets back on its feet. Bv trimming the increase from 8 to 5 percent the government will lilt some $2 2 billion from the projected federal deficit in the coming fisrai year It also would redone the amount of red ink estimated at $.1 billion tins year mi Soi id! Socui ay ledgers Despite Mr. Cardwells optimism and the assurances of the Advisory Council on Social Security that the system is in no Talent Or Timing? The line between love and hate is said to be a thin one And the same seems to hold true lor the high and mighty and the bum. V i Editor of his principal and the J- 4 Lei llie Law Do It Richard McAllister, a teacher at Brighton High School in the Jordan School District, is a courageous man lie Fas tiled criminal charges against one of his students alleging the vouth assaulted Mr McAllister. :'T ii " r P Our Own Hide Nailed to Wall ,v" - Happ'-to- Welt if their market is as high as mine I don t blame them!- - ' u & i |
